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<p align=center><b>Installing Berkeley DB</b></p>
<p>Berkeley DB installs the following files into the following locations,
with the following default values:</p>
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<tr><th>Configuration Variables</th><th>Default value</th></tr>
<tr><td>--prefix</td><td>/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.<b>Major</b>.<b>Minor</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>--exec_prefix</td><td>$(prefix)</td></tr>
<tr><td>--bindir</td><td>$(exec_prefix)/bin</td></tr>
<tr><td>--includedir</td><td>$(prefix)/include</td></tr>
<tr><td>--libdir</td><td>$(exec_prefix)/lib</td></tr>
<tr><td>docdir</td><td>$(prefix)/docs</td></tr>
<tr><th>Files</th><th>Default location</th></tr>
<tr><td>include files</td><td>$(includedir)</td></tr>
<tr><td>libraries</td><td>$(libdir)</td></tr>
<tr><td>utilities</td><td>$(bindir)</td></tr>
<tr><td>documentation</td><td>$(docdir)</td></tr>
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<p>With one exception, this follows the GNU Autoconf and GNU Coding
Standards installation guidelines; please see that documentation for
more information and rationale.</p>
<p>The single exception is the Berkeley DB documentation.  The
Berkeley DB documentation is provided in HTML format, not in
UNIX-style man or GNU info format.  For this reason, Berkeley DB
configuration does not support <b>--infodir</b> or <b>--mandir</b>.
To change the default installation location for the Berkeley DB
documentation, modify the Makefile variable, <b>docdir</b>.</p>
<p>When installing Berkeley DB on filesystems shared by machines of
different architectures, please note that although Berkeley DB
include files are installed based on the value of $(prefix), rather than
$(exec_prefix), the Berkeley DB include files are not always
architecture independent.</p>
<p>To move the entire installation tree to somewhere besides
<b>/usr/local</b>, change the value of <b>prefix</b>.</p>
<p>To move the binaries and libraries to a different location, change the
value of <b>exec_prefix</b>.  The values of <b>includedir</b> and
<b>libdir</b> may be similarly changed.</p>
<p>Any of these values except for <b>docdir</b> may be set as part of
the configuration:</p>
<blockquote><pre>prompt: ../dist/configure --bindir=/usr/local/bin</pre></blockquote>
<p>Any of these values, including <b>docdir</b>, may be changed when doing
the install itself:</p>
<blockquote><pre>prompt: make prefix=/usr/contrib/bdb install</pre></blockquote>
<p>The Berkeley DB installation process will attempt to create any
directories that do not already exist on the system.</p>
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